Excellent column by Poker Players Alliance Executive Director John Pappas in The Modesto Bee about the pending online poker bill in California.

It’s been estimated that more than a million Californians have played on unregulated offshore poker websites. While, many lawmakers understand the need to crack down on an unregulated online operators and provide consumers with necessary protections the debate has been ongoing for nine years – yes, nine years! All the while, Californians are left to fend for themselves as the black market for online poker grows . . . What are iPoker obstructionist offering? More years of keeping our heads stuck in the sand, more losses for players, and more years of leaving regulation up to complacent foreign governments . . . Surely even the obstructionists would agree that California regulators would do a better job. It’s time to do the right thing for California consumers and pass AB 2863.
Here's a link to the entire column, which was published on Monday: http://www.modbee.com/opinion/state-...e84846817.html